Since last month Bluemix supports Kubernetes (beta) which many people consider the de-facto standard for orchestrations of containers. Some of the older and simpler Bluemix sample applications use docker-compose. Below is a description how to run those examples on Kubernetes. (more…)

Last month IBM announced the beta of Kubernetes support in the IBM Bluemix Container Service. Below is a short introduction to Kubernetes and a short description how to get started using Kubernetes on IBM Bluemix. (more…)

In my previous blog entry I described how to use Watson Knowledge Studio to create models to identify information in unstructured data. These models can be used by the Watson services and offerings Watson Discovery, Watson Explorer and Watson Natural Language Understanding. Below is a quick intro how to use Watson Discovery to query unstructured data. (more…)

One of the newer IBM Watson offerings that I really like is Watson Knowledge Studio. It basically allows identifying information in unstructured data. Below is a quick overview of the Knowledge Studio functionality. (more…)

In order to learn Deep Learning I've taken an Udacity course that I can highly recommend. One reason I took that course was because I also liked the Udacity machine learning courses. Another reason was because I wanted to learn Tensorflow which to me looks like the most popular deep learning library right now. (more…)

Some people have asked why I haven't blogged since June. Here is why ... (more…)

Once you've connected your 'things' with the Watson Internet of Things platform, the next question is how to process the received data. In some scenarios the raw data triggers actions immediately, sometimes the data needs to be persisted so that it can be used for historical/descriptive analysis and sometimes the data is used to perform predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics. (more…)

The Watson Visual Recognition service is now generally available and a lot of new functionality has been added. The service combines the old beta capabilities plus the Alchemy functionality and the previous Visual Insights service. (more…)

This week I attended DNUG in Hamburg/Germany. DNUG is the German user group for IBM Collaboration Solutions. In the app dev track several sessions covered Bluemix. (more…)

As readers of my blog will know, I want to learn more about machine learning. I've managed to run some samples and I've built my own first little samples. It feels like the next step is to understand more about the different algorithms, for example when to pick which one and how to tune the parameters to achieve the best results. (more…)